How to maintain network drive connection

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Bill Meyer

I am running a network with mostly XP systems on it with all of the latest
MS changes. I have a Win98 workstation that I have a problem with the XP
server disconnecting it because it has not been used for awhile. Is there a
way to keep the network connection alive all of the time as opposed to XP
shutting the network connection down when idle?
 
Bill said:
I am running a network with mostly XP systems on it with all of the latest
MS changes. I have a Win98 workstation that I have a problem with the XP
server disconnecting it because it has not been used for awhile. Is there
a way to keep the network connection alive all of the time as opposed to
XP shutting the network connection down when idle?
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XP "Server"? No such thing - XP is a desktop OS.....your problem MIGHT be
that XP Pro only allows 10 concurrent connections to it, and one
workstation might very easily be using more then one connection. I suspect
that if the W98 machine is being disconnected when not in use, that the
other workstations are taking up all the available connections.
 
Hi Gordon

You are sort of right that XP is not a server OS but it can and is used as a
server. Basically it's set up as a shared workstation and it is running a
multi-user program that the other stations log into. Been running this for a
long time and it works fine. There are only 6 stations connected to this
unit so it is not the fact that others are taking the stations connections.

I know there is a connection timeout function on XP and it can be set. I am
just not sure if it can be actually turned off so that the connection is
always there.
 
The default timeout is 15 minutes. From a command prompt on the *server
side*
net config server /autodisconnect:-1
for no disconnect.

Setting this from the command line may turn off auto tuning for the server
service. So a better solution is to navigate to
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters

and set the Reg_DWord hex value of
"autodisconnect"=ffffffff

If "autodisconnect" doesn't exist, Add it.

(note; ffffffff = aprox. 8171 years)


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Hi Dave

Thanks for the information. I'm not sure that time is long enough (HA) but
I'll give it a try!!
 
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